five official UK border force forms by filled with grids of black ink, completely obscuring the personal details typically required. Only the dots from Turkish characters like İ and ü remain visible.

Exhibitions

Betül Aksu LANDING CARD

Rough Hewn is pleased to announce LANDING CARD, an exhibition by Betül Aksu (b.1990, Izmir, Turkey. Lives and works in London and Izmir)

Dates

23/10/26 – 21/11/26

Organisation

Rough Hewn

Region

Cornwall

Address

Rough Hewn, The Old Reading Room, Grove Hill, Mawnan Smith, Cornwall, TR11 5ER

Opening Times

Sun–Thu,	Closed
Fri–Sat,	11:00 – 17:00

Website

roughhewn.co.uk/

This Exhibition will present all five works in the LANDING CARD series, produced between 2023-2025. In each of the works comprising LANDING CARD, Betül Aksu alters official UK border force forms by filling them with grids of black ink, completely obscuring the personal details typically required. Only the dots from Turkish characters like İ and ü remain visible, serving as subtle traces of identity within a system designed to categorize and control. These small marks act as quiet testaments to presence, language and memory. Framed through a personal lens, the work documents the current realities of migration, transforming instruments of surveillance into sites of resistance and reflection.

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